JERUSALEM (CNN) — Israel started its biggest emergency drill in the nation’s history Sunday to prepare civilians, soldiers and rescue crews for the possibility of war, the defense force said in a statement.

The five-day drill, nicknamed Turning Point 3, comes amid the nation’s rising tensions with Iran.

It will be conducted in public facilities, including schools, military bases and government offices. Students, soldiers and other civilians will practice how to gather at protected places during an emergency.

Officials said the drill will include simulated rockets, air raids and other attacks on infrastructure and essential facilities, and use of weapons on civilians.

Everyone is expected to go to a protected place at the sound of sirens, the defense force said, adding that more instructions will be broadcast on a public channel.

Israel has conducted emergency drills the past two years, but officials said this is the biggest so far.

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Attention President Barack Obama: Release all the photos of the torture that was committed in OUR name, and let the prosecutions begin. Also, release the exact information these tortured prisoners gave, and what specific attacks these uses of torture prevented. Because failing that, all it boils down to is a government that is guilty of committing WAR CRIMES, and you’re part of the effort to conceal it.

These are the photos Bob Kincaid talked about on his show tonight.

Caution: Graphic Images

From The Sydney Morning Herald, February, 2006

http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2006/02/15/1139890768716.html

For the first time in 18 years, the Pentagon granted the news media access on Sunday night to cover the arrival of a coffin to Dover Air Force Base from overseas.

The coffin, draped in a flag and bearing the body of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers of Hopewell, Va, was unloaded from a government aircraft by the military honor guard. Sergeant Myers, 30, was killed by an improvised explosive device near Helmand Province in Afghanistan on April 4, according to the Defense Department.

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